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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, A compleat collection of voyages and travels: : consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick writers; beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c in English; Ramusio in Italian; Thevenot, &c in French; De Bry, and Grynaei novus orbis in Latin; the Dutch East-India Company in Dutch: and continued, with others of note, that have publish'd histories, voyages, travels, or discoveries, in the English, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Dutch tongues; relating to any part of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof, to this present time. With the heads of several of our most considerable sea-commanders; and a great number of excellent maps of all parts of the world, and cuts of most curious things in all the voyages. Also, an appendix, of the remarkable accidents at sea; and several of our considerable engagements: the charters, acts of Parliament, &c. about the East-India trade; and papers relating to the union of the two companies. Throughout the whole all original papers are printed at large; as the Pope's bull, to dispose of the West-Indies to the King of Spain; letters patents for establishing companies of merchants; as the Russia, East-India companies, &c. Letters from one great prince or state to another; shewing their titles, style, &c. To which is prefixed, a history of the peopling of the several parts of the world, and particularly of America; an account of the ancient shipping, and its successive improvements; together with the invention and use of the magnet, and its variation, &c. / By John Harris, A.M. Fellow of the Royal Society. In two volumes..

The dawn of British trade to the East Indies : as recorded in the Court minutes of the East India Company, 1599-1603; containing an account of the formation of the Company, the first adventure, and Waymouth's voyage in search of the North-west Passage / enow first printed from the original manuscript by Henry Stevens of Vermont ; with an introduction by Sir George Birdwood.

Relief for West-Indian distress : shewing the inefficiency of protecting duties on East-India sugar, and pointing out other modes of certain relief / by James Cropper.

Narratives of voyages towards the North-West, in search of a passage to Cathay and India. 1496 to 1631. With selections from the early records of the honourable the East India Company and from MSS. in the British Museum / [edited] by Thomas Rundall. [With maps and a facsimile.]

The East in the West, or, Work among the Asiatics and Africans in London / by J. Salter, London City Missionary ; with a preface by Henry Morris of the Madras Civil Service (retired).

English Channel ports : and the estate of the East and West India Dock Co. : sketches of the towns, docks, ports, and industries of Plymouth, Penzance, Southampton, Falmouth, Ramsgate, and Newhaven, including a description of the East and West India Docks, and the Tilbury Docks / by W. Clark Russell.

A letter to William W. Whitmore, Esq., M.P. : pointing out some of the erroneous statements contained in a pamphlet by Joseph Marryat, Esq., M.P., entitled "A reply to the arguments contained in various publications, recommending an equalization of the duties on East and West India sugars" / by the author of a pamphlet entitled "East and West India sugar" [id est, Zachary Macaulay].

No. 1, list of lights of North and South America (east and west coasts) : including British North America, the West India Islands and the adjacent coasts, the coast of Brazil, etc. to Cape Horn, the Pacific coast of America, and the Pacific islands / corrected to January, 1873, by Felix McCurley.

East by West, essays in transportation; a commentary on the political framework within which the East India trade has been carried on from early times, starting with Bablyon [!] and ending very near Bablyon [!] by A. J. Morrison.

East India (Opium)--North-west provinces : return to an address of the Honourable the House of commons, dated 10 March 1893 : for, "Return of all correspsondence between the India office and the government of India with regard to Confidential ciruclar, no. 1, of 1892, issued by the Board of revenue of the North-West Provinces and Oudh" / ordered, by the House of commons, to be printed, 28 March 1893.

The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies : with abstracts of journals of voyages to the East Indies during the seventeenth century, preserved in the India Office : and the voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-west Passage / edited by Clements R. Markham.

Antiquity of man : as deduced from the discovery of a human skeleton during the excavations of the East and West India Dock-extensions at Tilbury, north bank of the Thames. / By Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S., etc., Foreign Associate of the Institute of France.

Colonial commerce : comprising an inquiry into the principles upon which discriminating duties should be levied on sugar, the growth respectively of the West India British possessions, of the East Indies, and of foreign countries / by Alexander MacDonnell.

A Collection of voyages : Vol. IV : containing I. A voyage round the world : being an account of Capt. William Dampier's expedition into the South Seas in the ship St. George : with his various adventures and engagements, &c. : together with a voyage from the west coast of Mexico to East India / by W. Funnell, mate to Capt. Dampier. II. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. III. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South Seas. IV. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. V. Mr. Roberts's adventures and sufferings amongst the Corsairs of the Levant: his description of the Archipelago Islands, &c. : illustrated with maps and draughts.

A new voyage round the world : describing particularly the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico, the isle of Guam one of the Ladrones, Mindanao, and other Philippine and East-India islands near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c., New Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles, the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena : their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, fruits, animals, and inhabitants : their customs, religion, government, trade, &c. / by William Dampier ; illustrated with particular maps and draughts.

The story of the Philippines. Natural riches, industrial resources, statistics of productions, commerce and population; the laws, habits, customs, scenery, and conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies, and the thousand islands of the archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, with episodes of their early history ... Events of the war in the west with Spain, and the conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico. By Murat Halstead ... Splendidly and picturesquely illustrated with half-tone engravings from photographs, etchings from special drawings, and the military maps of the Philippines, prepared by the War Department of the United States.

A new voyage round the world. : Describing particularly, the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico; the isle of Guam one of the Ladrones, Mindanao, and other Philippine and East-India islands near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c. New Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles; the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena. Their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, fruits, animals, and inhabitants. Their customs, religion, governement, trade, &c. / By William Dampier. Illustrated with particular maps and draughts..